On Tue, Oct 06, 2026 at 01:42:17PM +0200, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> The mirror block job currently only operates on a root block node. It
> might be desired to use a throttle node as the root node for limiting
> the guest IO, without also limiting mirror operations.
> 
> There is no obvious reason why mirror should only be able to operate
> on a root block node.
> 
> When there is no explicit @replaces argument, implicit filters on top
> are skipped. Allowing mirror to operate on non-root nodes does not
> change that fact and keeps the behavior consistent with the
> documentation for @replaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <[email protected]>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libguestfs.org


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